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By accelerating application mobility across the hybrid cloud, IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions is blurring the boundaries that often distinguish the operational challenges between private and public clouds. [Read More]

Our FortiGate VM for VMware Cloud on AWS features the identical FortiOS firmware and FortiGuard security services that are delivered for other hypervisors and public clouds. But because the hybrid cloud raises additional security considerations – issues that we’ve been talking about with customers for more than a year - a major offering like VMware Cloud on AWS really brings those requirements into sharp focus. [Read More]

OpenStack is the open-source cloud management platform software that can be used to build a low-cost private cloud for development, and cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering. Enterprises are also turning to OpenStack for data center and cloud deployment alternatives. Fortinet’s Cynthia Hsieh offers some perspective about OpenStack and security today.
Can you talk high level about what customers are considering in regards to the cloud today?
Beyond virtualization, organizations are beginning to plan and implement next-generation,... [Read More]

Data Centers are undergoing the most radical transformation since they were first created. For decades, they were walled off and isolated vaults containing some of an organization’s most valued assets. Only a handful of data center shamans were authorized to query that data center for information. It’s no coincidence that that largest data center vendor in the world is named Oracle.
But today, everyone from executives to employees and consultants to even customers now have access to data center resources, often using homegrown applications... [Read More]

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) offers unprecedented opportunities for service providers to adopt new business models, radically lower costs and increase the speed of innovation and delivery of next-generation services. While the potential benefits of NFV are enormous, ensuring effective security is a key consideration for service providers.
Protecting these highly dynamic environments requires a Security Fabric with tightly integrated security and network technologies that share intelligence, and collaborate to detect, isolate, and respond... [Read More]

As businesses require more speed and flexibility in delivering applications and services, cloud computing has emerged as the model best aligned to meet the needs of many organizations. Data centers especially are evolving rapidly into both private and public clouds, along with customer demands for fast and secure cloud infrastructure and services. Fortinet’s Warren Wu shares more perspective on the intersection of cloud computing and security technology.
At a high level can you talk about the intersection of cloud and security today?
Over... [Read More]

With each passing day, enterprise networks are evolving. It started with the advent of virtualization, when companies realized that they don’t need a single server per application. Ever since, there has been a consistent march towards the purely virtual data center. While networks are evolving, so are the threats they face on a day-to-day basis. Building a defense using a perimeter firewall is as futile as defending a castle today using a moat. While it can prevent the causal hacker or trespasser, it does little to nothing to protect against... [Read More]

Fortinet is once again excited to be at VMworld 2016 next week. At our booth we will be showing off new integration with VMware Integrated OpenStack. Fortinet’s Warren Wu shares more detail on the significance of this and our ongoing integration with VMware.
Can you talk about Fortinet’s latest tech advancements with VMware? What is new?
To further demonstrate Fortinet’s commitment to help organizations securely benefit from the agility, scale and cost efficiencies of the cloud, Fortinet is announcing that it is the... [Read More]

Last week, FortiGuard Labs announced a remote denial of service vulnerability in the Teradata Gateway and Teradata Express. Teradata is a leading provider of big data solutions including business intelligence, data warehousing, CRM, and more. Many high-profile global enterprises use Teradata and the vulnerability could be used for corporate espionage or to to draw attention away from other malicious actions such as exfiltrating data and compromising other systems.
Because this vulnerability does not require an attacker to be authenticated, it... [Read More]

What’s the first rule of IT in healthcare? According to Frank Nydam, Senior Director of Healthcare Solutions for VMware, it’s “Don’t get in the caregiver’s way.”
Unfortunately, this is often easier said than done, as the industry quickly moves to a more digital and for the time being increasingly complex health information system. Add to this the obvious concerns about security and regulatory compliance and it’s clear that creating systems that are transparent to the caregiver, highly efficient from... [Read More]